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"The earth belongs always to the living generation."
These are not Thomas Jefferson's most famous words, but they are quite famous among students of politics. They have been used for generations to justify radical political change. And, like the soaring rhetoric of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, these Jeffersonian words have gained him great renown as a friend to political progress and enemy to "the dead hand of the past."
Jefferson, of course, was the president who praised the French Revolution, even apologizing for its murderous Reign of Terror. He was the public opponent of slavery, whose abstract condemnations were counterbalanced by his actions as a master who often sold his charges literally "down the river." (It was George Washington who quietly freed his slaves through an iron-clad last will and testament.) Jefferson was the one who stated that "in every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty" and sought to institute a "wall of separation between church and state" to be found nowhere in our Constitutional documents or the mainstream tradition of practice in the colonies or young republic.
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Still, Jefferson has his fans, including among conservatives. Conservative Jeffersonians can point out that he constantly argued for small, limited government, especially at the federal level. And he both praised and sought to defend the prerogatives of state and local government.
What, then, should we make of Jefferson, and of his grand pronouncements regarding politics and public life?
One possibility is that he was wont to let his pen run away with him; he may simply have written things that sounded good, but did not really fit with life's practical realities, or with his deeper understanding of human nature and the social order. This might excuse his sometimes bloodthirsty comments, such as that the tree of liberty must be "refreshed" with the blood of patriots and tyrants. As to the hypocrisy regarding slavery, that can only be explained by pointing to the human failings of a man who loved books, wine, and other luxuries and was under no social pressure to put his anti-slavery principles into action.
But what should we make of a statement, like that regarding each generation "owning" the earth, that seems purely political, that has public meaning and purpose seemingly unconnected with apologies for specific acts or events? Do we "own" the earth while we are here, then pass it on to the next generation to do with as it pleases? Why, and how so?
First, it is helpful to note the circumstances in which the letter in which Jefferson made this statement was written. It was a letter to James Madison, written while Jefferson was in Paris, during 1789—in the midst of the French Revolution. While Jefferson stated that his purpose in writing was merely to develop an idea that had come into his head, he makes clear the context in which he was thinking by referencing the debts owed by the French monarchy to foreign lenders. The French Revolutionary regime had repudiated its debts, telling its creditors that the revolutionary regime could not be bound to pay off loans made to support the monarchy it was abolishing.
So, as was often the case, Jefferson was writing as an apologist for the French Revolution, that murderous conflagration that claimed to be making society anew, which ended by consuming its own children, along with tens of thousands of "enemies of liberty" before embarking on a mad campaign to subjugate all of Europe. Nonetheless, where finances are concerned, we should not be too harsh in condemning Jefferson's claim. Lenders who feed into the profligacy of a regime should not be surprised if a new regime is less than forthcoming in paying debts from which the nation got no benefit, and which the lender should have been more cautious (and honorable) than to advance. The French monarchy was deeply corrupt, and sensible lenders should have known better than to fund the staggering debts it incurred. Moreover, the United States itself took a long time, and went through much trouble, before paying off debts incurred even during its own struggle with Britain.
In his letter, however, Jefferson makes grand, abstract statements about the debts of a previous generation being by "natural right" nugatory after nineteen years. That is, he is making a broad statement leaving no room for legitimate differences and prudential accommodations in taking specific circumstances into account. Still, as a policy and moral stricture on the government incurring debt, Jefferson might be conceded to have something of a moral point; the perpetual debts established by the British monarchy, which Alexander Hamilton would seek to establish in the new United States might be seen as empowering a monied aristocracy at the expense of the common folk who bear the burden of public debts.
But Jefferson does not address debts only. He also is writing in a time of constitutional revolution, seeking to justify repudiation of the laws and governmental forms of the previous generation. Not only debts, but constitutions and laws are, for him, violations of natural right if continued past nineteen years. Here is the central paragraph:
no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct. They are masters too of their own persons, and consequently may govern them as they please. But persons and property make the sum of the objects of government. The constitution and the laws of their predecessors extinguished them, in their natural course, with those whose will gave them being. This could preserve that being till it ceased to be itself, and no longer. Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.
Jefferson's use of the lawyerly term "usufruct" is, frankly, a mess, here. It is a term from the (continental) civil law, not the Anglo-American common law. But its closest meaning, in our context, would be to a life estate. Someone with a "usufruct" has a right to use the property assigned to him, including for profit, including by farming or raising livestock. But he may not lay waste to the property or, unless specifically allowed, use up non-renewable resources (such as by mining). Edmund Burke, the great philosopher and statesman on the other end of the political spectrum from Jefferson, referred to each generation as holding its property—indeed, all of society—in trust, as with a life estate holding no right to lay waste what it owed to succeeding generations. But, for Burke, the emphasis was on the duty to maintain continuity with the past such that succeeding generations could take their inheritance secure in the knowledge that they could hold it as an inheritance, as part of a tradition of thought and practice that settled reasonable expectations and provided guidance on how to live in peace.
For Jefferson, meanwhile, the "usufruct" is seen as license for each generation to do as it pleases, limited only by the duty not to lay waste—a duty, of course, flagrantly ignored by the French Revolutionaries, who sought to make the world anew and ended up leaving to their followers a nation, and a continent, in flames.
Moreover, for Jefferson, the usufruct of each generation was not merely a limit on the authority of preceding generations, but a repudiation of it. No law or constitution, to his mind, could rightfully be even intended to last longer than nineteen years. The right of a succeeding generation to amend such constitution or law was insufficient, in his view, because flaws in representation and various forms of corruption make repeal too difficult. Better, on Jefferson's view, to recognize the right of each "generation" (in truth, as he recognizes, generations do not begin and end at any given point in time, but flow one into another) to simply ignore precedent and change fundamental laws as it wills.
What Jefferson demands, in this letter as in all too much else, is ignorance, even contempt for the past. The desire for a "fresh start" was appealing to many in our own founding generation because so much was assumed to be part of what one naturally would make use of in that "fresh start." Long-held institutions, beliefs, and practices regarding public morals, limitations on political power, and procedural due process, to go no further, provided a way of life that allowed for revision of political forms (e.g. the transition from a putative monarchy to fully republican government) without danger of true revolution. Sadly, events from the French Revolution on through the horrors of Marxist revolutions in the twentieth century have shown that fresh starts, when taken seriously, entail clean sweeps of institutions, and people, who are deemed corrupt holdovers from the past. The result is all too much blood; blood that does not refresh, but rather drowns the tree of liberty.
This column first appeared September 10 on Imaginative Conservative and is reprinted with permission.


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Grill Time: New Twists On July 4th Favorites
ResumeThe Fourth of July is almost upon us, and for many people that means two things: fireworks and grilling. Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst may not have pointers on the pyrotechnics, but she sure knows her way around a grill. Kathy's special ingredient for burgers? Bacon. Lots and lots of bacon. She also shares recipes for a goat cheese crostada, vegetable kebabs, potato salad (with bacon or without) and corn relish:
Tomato-Zucchini-Goat Cheese Crostata
(View/print a PDF of all of the BBQ recipes)
Kathy's Note: A crostata is a free-form rustic pie and in this savory version the buttery dough is filled with ripe tomatoes, fresh garden herbs and goat cheese. You can also add sautéed zucchini slices or virtually any other farm fresh vegetable. Make the dough a day ahead of time or refrigerate for at least 2 hours to firm it up before rolling it out. This is way easier than making a pie and every bit as good—perfect for picnics, beachside meals or BBQ's.
Serves 4 to 6
The Pastry
2 cups flour
Pinch salt
1 tablespoon chopped thyme
1 1/2 sticks butter, chilled and cut into cubes
About 1/3 cup cold water
The Crostata
1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
1 small onion, thinly sliced
1 small zucchini, sliced into long strips, about 1/2-inch thick
1 small yellow summer squash, sliced into long strips, about 1/2-inch thick
1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
1/4 cup pesto, any type of pesto
4 ripe tomatoes, thinly sliced, about 10 ounces
3 ounces goat cheese crumbled
Fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
In the container of a food processor, mix the flour and salt and thyme. Add the butter and pulse the dough about 15 times or until the butter is the consistency of coarse cornmeal. With the motor running add only enough cold water until the dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. Remove and form into a ball and wrap in foil. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
In a medium skillet, heat the oil over moderate heat. Sauté the onion and zucchini and summer squash slices and sprinkle with the garlic and salt and pepper. Cook 4 minutes on each side. Let cool.
Working on a well-floured surface, roll out the dough into a circle about 15 inches across. Place on a baking sheet.
Rub the bottom of the pastry with the pesto. Arrange the squash slices in a circle with the thinnest part of the squash facing in, closest to the center. Leave a 1 to 2 inch border around the outside of the pastry with no filling. Top with the tomatoes slices, goat cheese, and basil. Drape the pastry into the center. Chill for at least 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Bake on the middle shelf for around 25 to 30 minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown and the cheese is bubbling.
Vegetable Kebabs
Kathy's Note: The idea here is to mix textures, flavors and colors on a metal skewer or wooden skewer. If using wood (bamboo) make sure to soak the stick in cold water for at least 20 minutes so they do not burn on the hot grill. You can use any type of fresh summer vegetables on this kebab. Serve with a pesto, green sauce, aioli or lemon wedges.
Serves 4
15 cherry tomatoes
15 basil leaves
3 small to medium zucchini and/or yellow summer squash, cut into 1-inch slices
1 lemon cut into thin slices
15 pearl baby onions, peeled or 1 red onion cut into small wedges
1 red pepper, cut into 1-inch strips
1 yellow or green pepper, cut into 1-inch strips
8 crimini mushrooms, cut in half
The Marinade:
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Freshly ground pepper and sea salt
Instructions: Divide all the ingredients up among 4 to 6 skewers, alternating colors and textures. Place a tomato next to a basil leaf next to a mushroom half next to a pepper, etc.
Make the marinade by mixing all the ingredients. Brush a small bit on the kebabs.
Preheat your grill until hot, about 400 degrees. Grill the kebabs about 10 minutes, about 5 to 6 minutes per side, brushing with the marinade as needed. Serve hot or warm.
Best Bacon Burgers
Kathy's Note: Jarrod Spangler, the owner behind the new artisanal butcher shop called MEat in Kittery, Maine, grinds ground round and chuck, and fat from short ribs with his own house-smoked bacon to make a truly extraordinary burger. This is my version of his mixture. Try to find good smoked bacon, chop it up in a food processor and then and mix it into your favorite burger blend by hand. You can top the burgers with thin slices of avocado, tomato and fresh spinach leaves.
Serves 3 to 6
1 pound ground round, chuck, or sirloin, or a mixture of all three
3 ounces smoked bacon, one or two thick slice(s)
Place the bacon in a food processor and process until it is finely ground.
Place the beef in a bowl and using your hands or a spoon mix the ground bacon into the mixture lightly. Form the mixture into 6 burgers and chill.
Preheat the grill and cook the burgers about 4 to 5 minutes per side, without touching or pressing down of the mixture for medium. Flip once and serve hot on toasted English muffins.
Burger Tips:
• When forming burgers don't press them down too densely. You want a well-mounded burger that will get well done on the outside and stay juicy and moist and medium-rare on the inside.
• Let your grill get good and hot, around 400 degrees.
• Clean off the grill once it's hot with a barbecue brush or an old towel. Make sure it's clean so the burgers don't stick.
• Place burger over high heat. Let cook for about 4 to 5 minutes, depending on how well done you like and DO NOT touch the burger. Don't prod it or press it down or do anything. After 4 or 5 minutes, carefully flip the burger over. Again, leave it all alone. Cook another 3 to 4 minutes and serve.
• A small 3.8 ounce burger (about 1/6 of a pound of meat) cooks medium-rare for minutes 4 to 5 per side over high heat.
Other than all-American ketchup and mustard here are some ideas for great ways to top your holiday burgers:
• Mayonnaise (homemade or store-bought) mixed with chopped fresh basil
• Hoisin sauce and grated fresh ginger
• Greek yogurt mixed with chopped fresh cilantro
• Pickled cucumbers and pickled red onions
• Kimchee
• Guacamole
• BBQ sauce
• Chutney
• Soy, grated ginger and scallion
• Chopped fresh chiles
• Sprouts and fresh herbs
German-Style Potato Salad
Kathy's Note: What I like most about this recipe —other than the great, vibrant flavors—is that this version of potato salad uses no mayonnaise and will hold up to summer picnics, BBQ's and more.
Serves 4 to 6
4 ounces bacon, or 3 tablespoons olive oil
3 pounds potatoes, peeled and quartered, about 8 medium-sized potatoes
5 scallions, white and green part, very thinly sliced
1/2 cup minced chives
2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons chopped celery or celery leaves, optional
Bring large pot water to boil. Cook potatoes until tender but not falling apart, about 15 to 20 minutes. Test with a small sharp knife to make sure they are tender. Drain into a colander. While the potatoes are hot use a sharp knife to cut them into smaller 1-inch pieces.
Meanwhile cook the bacon making sure to reserve the bacon fat. Chop the bacon into small pieces and reserve.
Place the drained potatoes in a serving bowl. Gently toss, while warm with the bacon fat (or olive oil) scallions, chives, vinegar, olive oil. Add the cooked chopped bacon (or you can add chopped celery) and taste for seasoning. Serve room temperature.
Grilled Corn Relish
Kathy's Note: Serve this as a topping for burgers, sausages or as a salsa-like dip with chips and vegetables.
Makes about 2 cups
4 ears fresh corn
1 red pepper
1 jalapeño pepper
3 scallions
1/4 cup fresh chopped cilantro
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon apple cider or white wine vinegar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Heat grill to 400 degrees. Husk the corn and brush lightly with olive oil.
Place the corn, red pepper, and jalapeño directly on the heat. Grill corn and jalapeño 4 minutes on each side, until charred. Remove and let cool slightly.
Grill pepper for 5 minutes on each side, until charred. Remove and let cool slightly.
Cut the corn kernels off the cob and place in a bowl. Core the jalapeño and remove seeds or keep for a spicier relish and chop. Core the pepper and chop and add to corn. Add the scallions, cilantro, lime juice, olive oil, vinegar and salt and pepper to taste.
- Kathy Gunst, resident chef for Here & Now and author of cookbooks including "Notes from a Maine Kitchen." She tweets @mainecook.
This segment aired on July 2, 2014.

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For murdering German Enlightenment intellectual Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Habsburg Trieste on this date in 1768 inflicted a breaking-wheel execution straight out of antiquity.
A Saxon cobbler's son, Winckelmann (German Wikipedia link) showed academic aptitude from youth and spent his twenties reading theology and medicine at the Universities of Halle and of Jena while he tutored to pay the bills. This scuffling scholar got his big break when his gifts were noticed by the visiting papal nuncio, who recruited him to court service in Rome on condition of his conversion to Catholicism — a spiritual epiphany which dovetailed perfectly with his growing interest in art and drew him to Italy. (pdf)
Winckelmann traveled and read widely in Italy. He was a great admirer of the restrained classical Grecian aesthetic whose celebrated exemplars were being unearthed throughout the Mediterranean world;* some papers he wrote during the 1760s are regarded as seminal documents in the study of art history and of archaeology, and he in turn became a celebrity intellectual sought-after in the salons of visiting art-fanciers.
Having begun so mean and climbed so very high, Winckelmann was set up for golden years savoring the view from the pinnacle — but he was never destined to receive them.
Taking ill on a trip with friend and fellow classicist Bartolomeo Cavaceppi in 1768, Winckelmann tapped out and returned alone to Trieste where he shared a room at a seaside hotel** with a chance acquaintance of the road: our post's subject, Francesco Arcangeli. (German Wikipedia again)
Arcangeli, it turned out, was a thief who had already been expelled from Vienna and now compounded his villainy by throttling and stabbing Winckelmann. Though the wounds were mortal, Winckelmann lived on for several hours in full command of his senses, evenly providing every bit of information that would be needed to avenge his murder. The self-evident inference of robbery forms Arcangeli's accepted motive, but alternative hypotheses have attracted attention over the years: in particular, Winckelmann is thought to have been homosexual, so it's possible their shared lodging was really an assignation that went very bad; more exotic is the idea that Winckelmann was intentionally assassinated further to some inscrutable plot among Vatican rivals or art cognoscenti.
A Winckelmann Society in the man's hometown of Stendal, Germany maintains its native son's scholarly focus on classical antiquity. Readers of German might also appreciate Goethe's essay on the man.
* Notably, the excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum had only just begun in 1748; Winckelmann visited the sites.
** It's the present-day Grand Hotel Duchi d'Aosta.
On this day..
- 1573: Lancelot van Brederode, sea beggar - 2020
- 1909: William Hampton, Cornwall ghost - 2019
- 1934: William Bayly, bad neighbor - 2018
- 1683: Andrew Guilline, Covenanter accessory - 2017
- 1934: Not Walter Lett, To Kill a Mockingbird inspiration - 2015
- 1780: John Gamble, anti-Wilmot - 2014
- 1813: Johann Christian Claudius Devaranne - 2013
- 1301: False Margaret, Norwegian pretender - 2012
- 1898: Choe Si-hyeong, Donghak leader - 2011
- 1998: David Wilson - 2010
- 1889: "Cattle Kate" Ella Watson lynched - 2009
- 1514: György Dózsa, Transylvanian Braveheart - 2008


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Can the way you think really impair your ability to process words?YES! There are two basic kinds of learners: Verbal and Nonverbal. Intelligence does not play a role in this distinction—it is simply a difference in learning and thinking styles.
Verbal learners mainly think in words rather than pictures, with a sort of internal dialogue. Verbal thought is linear and follows the structure of language. Thinking verbally consists of composing mental sentences, one word at a time, at about the same speed as speech. Nonverbal learners mainly think in pictures. They think with 3-dimensional, multi-sensory images that evolve and grow as the thought process adds more information or concepts. They do not experience much, if any, internal dialogue. This thought process happens so much faster than verbal thinking, that it is usually subliminal. |
Which way do you think?
Are you a verbal thinker?
Are you a nonverbal thinker?
How does thinking style play a role in learning?
The Dyslexia Dilemma...
Words that enable a picture-thinking person to imagine a picture, have meaning and are clearly understood. However, they are unconsciously challenged when faced with certain words like: the, was, if, and, were, in, on, as, or, that...and at least 207 others just like them (commonly known as "sight words").
Those words are at the root of reading difficulties for a picture-thinker. WHY? With no picture to process for each sight word, the reading material quickly loses meaning - causing confusion, frustration, and fatigue. Consider, for a moment, that up to 60% of any given written paragraph are words that DO NOT trigger a visual picture. Imagine, as a person who thinks in pictures, trying to obtain the real meaning of a paragraph when 60% of the words are words with which they cannot think! |


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That ended awfully abruptly! Were you satisfied? Isaac Hayes is, I think, honored, and the hatred is directed at the organization that took him away from us, the "Super Adventure Club." The grisly near-death scene was finely detailed, and the final "salty balls" punchline well-placed. The strip club interlude was genuinely poignant, as the kids beg poor Chef to remember his real self.
Taking the broader view, answer the question: Is religion a super adventure club?
UPDATE: Here's the AP description of the episode, quoting key lines:
''A lot of us don't agree with the choices the Chef has made in the last few days,'' one of the children eulogizes him at a funeral. ''Some of us feel hurt and confused that he seemed to turn his back on us. But we can't let the events of the past few weeks take away the memories of how Chef made us smile.Scientology was not named. Standing in for it was "that fruity little club," the "Super Adventure Club," which is all about child molestation. Chef's membership in the club was revealed in scenes that use spliced-together dialogue from past episodes that were voiced by Isaac Hayes.
''We shouldn't be mad at Chef for leaving us,'' the eulogy concludes. ''We should be mad at that fruity little club for scrambling his brains.''


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Lzzy Hale on Halestorm, Hetfield and channelling Lemmy
Lzzy Hale on Halestorm, Hetfield and channelling Lemmy
"I became a guitar player because I wanted to become a bad ass," says Halestorm's Lzzy Hale. "There was no other reason."
If being a bad ass guitarist, songwriter and frontwoman was the goal, then it's pretty much mission accomplished. Lzzy, who founded Halestorm with little brother Arejay back when she was 13 and he was just ten, is about to head into the studio to record album three on the back of some serious success.
To date, Lzzy has fronted the band through thousands of shows, penned the Grammy-winning Love Bites…(So Do I) and has her own signature guitar built by Gibson. Not bad, right?
We sat down with Lzzy to get her take on the journey from piano-playing teen to rock goddess...
Early Days
"We lost the guitar player from our band. He had been in the band for like six months and his parents said, 'No, no more band!'
"I was so distraught as a 16 year old that I thought we'd never find anyone else so I might as well start learning to play. I had to make that choice of whether I was going to carry on doing the epic piano or did I want to go the guitar route, and I went guitar.
"I denied [playing piano] for the longest time in my late teenage years wanting to be a bad ass thinking piano was sissy. I finally got back around to it and it's been really nice to get back on the piano on our last record."
Guitar Heroes
"I loved a lot of '80s guitarists, like Tom Keifer from Cinderella, Brian May and James Hetfield, hence my obsession with the Explorer.
"Later on my mom introduced me to the girl guitar players like Joan Jett, Lita Ford and Nancy Wilson and I thought, 'Sweet, they're doing it too!' Brian May had a unique way of playing, I was always attracted to players that used melody first instead of shredding. Same thing with Tom Keifer, there's a lot of melody to their solos and they're songwriters first.
"That has always been my approach. Hetfield is just a bad ass. I always felt that if I was a dude I would want to be James Hetfield because he is all that is man and he's also one of the most amazing rhythm guitar players. Everybody talks about lead, but the rhythm is the meat and potatoes and without that base nobody can do anything on top. And he's got a forearm of steel, I'm still trying to get that down."
"Gibson recently made me a custom Lzzy Hale Explorer. I wanted to take the Hetfield influence and take the classy white and gold colour scheme of mine.
"I tried to get all of my influences on one guitar, it was tough. On tour I also have a Les Paul Supreme and a Les Paul Baritone that I use for our Drop B stuff. The last guitar I received was a birthday present from our guitar player and it was an SG, my first SG.
"It was the one rock 'n' roll standard that I didn't have. I'm a Marshall girl. I've tried so many amps and I like to experiment in the studio. I'll maybe combine a JMC800 Plexi with a Diezel and be like, 'Yes, this is the wall of sound.' Live, I keep going back to Marshall.
"The influences I had when I was a kid stuck with me when it comes to my guitar tone, especially Mr Keifer.
"I've had the opportunity to talk with him and meet him, he texts me, it's awesome and very surreal. I like that when he plays, the tone varies from guitar to guitar.
"I was never a huge fan of a lot of fuzz and a lot of hiss. With me, there's a significant difference every time I change guitar so I pick and choose based on the song."
"There are many ways to skin that cat. If there is a piano in the room I will probably go to that, because I don't have room for a keyboard with me backstage on tour.
"Lately I've been starting with lyrics first, oddly. I like to look back on the people who influenced my influences and a lot of that is old school blues and those players were incredible with barely any gear at all. Doing that gives you a different perspective.
"If it wasn't for Metallica I wouldn't have been introduced to Motörhead. The other day I was thinking, 'Ok, if Lemmy was a girl and played guitar, what we he do?' I wrote a couple of riffs with that in mind."
Album Three
"We're in the middle of writing for our third record. It's exciting but it's such a mindfuck. We've just started to crack the code of what songs we want on the record.
"We're finishing that up after this tour, then we'll finish the record, release it and do it all over again. It's a little stressful because we're under pressure to do something halfway decent and better than the last one. I'm just excited to get it out there and show people some new songs.
"You write like 60 songs and most of that will be thrown away because you're chasing after the new thing that gets you excited. In the first batch of songs we had this epic metal song, one song sounded like Tom Petty and then we had five piano ballads, out of all of that there were maybe three songs that we thought were cool and were the next direction we should go in so we threw the rest away.
"You want some songs that will work on the radio, you want songs that are fun, you want some that maybe won't work on radio but are fun to play live and are the glue that holds the record together."
Bagging a Grammy
"We try not to think about [winning a Grammy in 2013] too much. We just chase after what gets us excited and I think that has been a good compass so far.
"The Grammys, it's kind of like receiving an engagement ring as a band. You don't need it to know that you're going to be a band forever and make great music. We didn't need it but having that gesture and that people have recognised what we've done for the past 17 years was pretty amazing. We're not thinking, 'Oh, we have to win another Grammy,' We probably won't because that was a long shot. We're not thinking that on this album we need to win a Grammy, a Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy, we just want to be able to go on tour for the rest of our lives.
"We were freaking out at being nominated for the Grammy. We didn't know what it meant, we didn't even know if it meant that we got to go to the ceremony. I said to the guys, 'We get to go but don't get your hopes up because we're not going to win.'
"We won and it was surreal. I remember them saying, 'The Grammy goes to…Love Bites,' and we were thinking, 'Love Bites? Oh my God, that's us!' We had nothing prepared because we didn't think we'd win. If we ever get nominated again we'll write a list of people to thank. I have the award next to a trophy that my brother and I got for finishing third in a fair talent show.


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In response to the recent adoption of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety Opinion on Fragrance Allergens, The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) is proposing a multi-stakeholder process—which includes the input of scientists, regulators and civic groups—in order to address issues surrounding fragrance allergens in cosmetic products.
Following the adoption of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety Opinion on Fragrance Allergens published July 31, IFRA is proposing a cooperative approach which includes a series of multi-stakeholder workshops and conferences. The first conference slated for December 2012 in Brussels will focus on bringing various areas of expertise together to reach an agreed upon definition of what constitutes a fragrance skin allergen.
IFRA is also proposing a formal process to review and revise protocols, methodologies and the definition of criteria. The group said it would ideally be held in partnership with the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO) and involve the scientific community at large, the fragrance industry and its value chain partners.
The proposed process also includes the right of scrutiny for interested civil society groups. Building upon the initiative, the IFRA also suggests using technologies such as smart labeling, telephone hotlines and websites to help consumers obtain detailed, accurate and beneficial information on fragrance materials, which would allow consumers to evaluate a product in relation to potential skin allergens and their own requirements.
Following the pre-consultation phase for the Opinion, IFRA said it has been engaged with experts from the SCCS, the EU Commission, the scientific community and industry working toward resolving potential differences in views.
IFRA said it "firmly believes" that the recent public hearing on the draft Opinion demonstrated the need for a multi-stakeholder approach.


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Blast your way through hordes of swarming aliens as you defend your planet against a relentless assault from space!"The cat is finally out of the bag, Space Frak is one wild shooter!"
"I play this between Starcraft 2 matches, and it's great."
"Very simple to learn, but fun to master. The achievements are tough, and the later levels cause you to evolve your earlier strategies."
"Love the universal build, I play this on my iPad when I can and my iPhone when I can't"
= Tap the screen to fire your gun in that direction.
= Hold your finger down to charge your gun, then release to fire a powerful blast.
= Charging your gun also draws in powerups.
Advanced Tips:
= A powerful laser blast can destroy multiple enemies.
= Destroy several enemies with a single shot to earn combos for big points.
= Large combos cause powerups to appear more often.
= In later levels, certain enemies can only be damaged by asteroids.
= Fire at an asteroid to set it ablaze and send it toward incoming spacecraft.
+ Full Game Center support
+ Universal build: play standard on iPhone and high-def on iPad with one purchase
+ Dozens of enemies and bosses
+ Dazzling visuals
+ Online leaderboards and 10 challenging achievements
+ Real-time enemy destruction effects
+ Facebook support: post your hi-scores to your profile
+ Stunning space backgrounds inspired by actual photographs
+ Tweet your hi-scores with in-game Twitter support!
+ 5 Powerups, including Triple Shot, Machine Gun, and Hyper Blast
+ Endless level cycles: The difficulty will continue to increase as long as you can handle it
Space Frak HD is compatible with iPhone 3GS or later, iPod Touch 4th Gen or later, iPad 2 or later, and iPad mini running iOS 6.0+.
Riverman Media is two brothers who have dedicated their lives to the art of 2d game making
Genre:Action, Arcade
Release:Jan 15, 2011
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Meatless from The Kitchens of Martha Stewart Living
The test kitchens at Martha Stewart are never idle for long! Hot on the heels of Martha's American Food, we have this new collection of 100% meat-free recipes. But it's not just for vegetarians! With over 200 recipes for everything from pot pie to tacos, there's plenty here for anyone who's trying to eat a little less meat this year.
Quick Facts
• Who wrote it: The Kitchens of Martha Stewart Living
• Who published it: Clarkson Potter
• Number of recipes: Over 200
• Recipes for right now: Versatile Vegetarian Chili, Vegetable-Barley Pot Pies, Farro Salad with Oven-Roasted Grapes, Crisp Tofu Sandwiches with Peanut-Ginger Sauce, Beans-and-Greens Tacos with Goat Cheese, Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower and Lemon Zest
• Other highlights: This is a straightforward collection of vegetarian main dishes, soups, and sides. The recipes really speak for themselves, helped along by beautiful full-page photos of nearly every dish. While the majority of the foods are solidly of the "American" variety — familiar soups, vegetarian pizzas, creamy pastas, veggie burgers — the book does occasionally branch out into other cuisines with dishes like brown rice bowls, tacos, curries, and Moroccan stews.
I particularly like their "Versatile Vegetarian" sections, like the chili pictured in the slideshow above. They give a basic technique and then suggestions for varying the ingredients or changing the seasonings.
If you're looking for simple meat-free recipes to add to your weeknight meal rotation, there are enough ideas and recipes here to keep you occupied for quite some time to come!
• Who would enjoy this book? Vegetarians, people wanting to incorporate more meat-free meals into their diet, fans of Martha Stewart's style of recipes
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes from The Kitchens of Martha Stewart Living
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Source: Victorian Women Writers Project 's online text from the author's Xantippe and other verse Cambridge: E. Johnson, 1881), 1-13. — George P. Landow]
WHAT, have I waked again? I never thought
To see the rosy dawn, or ev'n this grey,
Dull, solemn stillness, ere the dawn has come.
The lamp burns low; low burns the lamp of life :
The still morn stays expectant, and my soul,
All weighted with a passive wonderment,
Waiteth and watcheth, waiteth for the dawn.
Come hither, maids; too soundly have ye slept
That should have watched me; nay, I would not chide—
Oft have I chidden, yet I would not chide
In this last hour;—now all should be at peace.
I have been dreaming in a troubled sleep
Of weary days I thought not to recall;
Of stormy days, whose storms are hushed long since;
Of gladsome days, of sunny days; alas!
In dreaming, all their sunshine seem'd so sad,
As though the current of the dark To‐Be
Had flow'd, prophetic, through the happy hours.
And yet, full well, I know it was not thus;
I mind me sweetly of the summer days,
When, leaning from the lattice, I have caught
The fair, far glimpses of a shining sea;
And, nearer, of tall ships which thronged the bay,
And stood out blackly from a tender sky
All flecked with sulphur, azure, and bright gold;
And in the still, clear air have heard the hum
Of distant voices; and methinks there rose
No darker fount to mar or stain the joy
Which sprang ecstatic in my maiden breast
Than just those vague desires, those hopes and fears,
Those eager longings, strong, though undefined,
Whose very sadness makes them seem so sweet.
What cared I for the merry mockeries
Of other maidens sitting at the loom?
Or for sharp voices, bidding me return
To maiden labour? Were we not apart,—
I and my high thoughts, and my golden dreams,
My soul which yearned for knowledge, for a tongue
That should proclaim the stately mysteries
Of this fair world, and of the holy gods?
Then followed days of sadness, as I grew
To learn my woman‐mind had gone astray,
And I was sinning in those very thoughts—
For maidens, mark, such are not woman's thoughts—
(And yet, 'tis strange, the gods who fashion us
Have given us such promptings). . . .
Fled the years,
Till seventeen had found me tall and strong,
And fairer, runs it, than Athenian maids
Are wont to seem; I had not learnt it well—
My lesson of dumb patience—and I stood
At Life's great threshold with a beating heart,
And soul resolved to conquer and attain. . . .
Once, walking 'thwart the crowded market place,
With other maidens, bearing in the twigs
White doves for Aphrodite's sacrifice,
I saw him, all ungainly and uncouth,
Yet many gathered round to hear his words,
Tall youths and stranger‐maidens—Sokrates—
I saw his face and marked it, half with awe,
Half with a quick repulsion at the shape. . . .
The richest gem lies hidden furthest down,
And is the dearer for the weary search;
We grasp the shining shells which strew the shore,
Yet swift we fling them from us; but the gem
We keep for aye and cherish. So a soul,
Found after weary searching in the flesh
Which half repelled our senses, is more dear,
For that same seeking, than the sunny mind
Which lavish Nature marks with thousand hints
Upon a brow of beauty. We are prone
To overweigh such subtle hints, then deem,
In after disappointment, we are fooled. . . .
And when, at length, my father told me all,
That I should wed me with great Sokrates,
I, foolish, wept to see at once cast down
The maiden image of a future love,
Where perfect body matched the perfect soul.
But slowly, softly did I cease to weep;
Slowly I 'gan to mark the magic flash
Leap to the eyes, to watch the sudden smile
Break round the mouth, and linger in the eyes;
To listen for the voice's lightest tone—
Great voice, whose cunning modulations seemed
Like to the notes of some sweet instrument.
So did I reach and strain, until at last
I caught the soul athwart the grosser flesh.
Again of thee, sweet Hope, my spirit dreamed!
I, guided by his wisdom and his love,
Led by his words, and counselled by his care,
Should lift the shrouding veil from things which be,
And at the flowing fountain of his soul
Refresh my thirsting spirit. . . .
And indeed,
In those long days which followed that strange day
When rites and song, and sacrifice and flow'rs,
Proclaimed that we were wedded, did I learn,
In sooth, a‐many lessons; bitter ones
Which sorrow taught me, and not love inspired,
Which deeper knowledge of my kind impressed
With dark insistence on reluctant brain;—
But that great wisdom, deeper, which dispels
Narrowed conclusions of a half‐grown mind,
And sees athwart the littleness of life
Nature's divineness and her harmony,
Was never poor Xantippe's. . . .
I would pause
And would recall no more, no more of life,
Than just the incomplete, imperfect dream
Of early summers, with their light and shade,
Their blossom‐hopes, whose fruit was never ripe;
But something strong within me, some sad chord
Which loudly echoes to the later life,
Me to unfold the after‐misery
Urges with plaintive wailing in my heart.
Yet, maidens, mark; I would not that ye thought
I blame my lord departed, for he meant
No evil, so I take it, to his wife.
'Twas only that the high philosopher,
Pregnant with noble theories and great thoughts,
Deigned not to stoop to touch so slight a thing
As the fine fabric of a woman's brain—
So subtle as a passionate woman's soul.
I think, if he had stooped a little, and cared,
I might have risen nearer to his height,
And not lain shattered, neither fit for use
As goodly household vessel, nor for that
Far finer thing which I had hoped to be. . . .
Death, holding high his retrospective lamp,
Shows me those first, far years of wedded life,
Ere I had learnt to grasp the barren shape
Of what the Fates had destined for my life.
Then, as all youthful spirits are, was I
Wholly incredulous that Nature meant
So little, who had promised me so much.
At first I fought my fate with gentle words,
With high endeavours after greater things;
Striving to win the soul of Sokrates,
Like some slight bird, who sings her burning love
To human master, till at length she finds
Her tender language wholly misconceived,
And that same hand whose kind caress she sought,
With fingers flippant flings the careless corn. . . .
I do remember how, one summer's eve,
He, seated in an arbour's leafy shade,
Had bade me bring fresh wine‐skins. . . .
As I stood
Ling'ring upon the threshold, half concealed
By tender foliage, and my spirit light
With draughts of sunny weather, did I mark
An instant, the gay group before mine eyes.
Deepest in shade, and facing where I stood,
Sat Plato, with his calm face and low brows
Which met above the narrow Grecian eyes,
The pale, thin lips just parted to the smile,
Which dimpled that smooth olive of his cheek.
His head a little bent, sat Sokrates,
With one swart finger raised admonishing,
And on the air were borne his changing tones.
Low lounging at his feet, one fair arm thrown
Around his knee (the other, high in air
Brandish'd a brazen amphor, which yet rained
Bright drops of ruby on the golden locks
And temples with their fillets of the vine),
Lay Alkibiades the beautiful.
And thus, with solemn tone, spake Sokrates:
'This fair Aspasia, which our Perikles
Hath brought from realms afar, and set on high
In our Athenian city, hath a mind,
I doubt not, of a strength beyond her race;
And makes employ of it, beyond the way
Of women nobly gifted : woman's frail—
Her body rarely stands the test of soul;
She grows intoxicate with knowledge; throws
The laws of custom, order, 'neath her feet,
Feasting at life's great banquet with wide throat.'
Then sudden, stepping from my leafy screen,
Holding the swelling wine‐skin o'er my head,
With breast that heaved, and eyes and cheeks aflame,
Lit by a fury and a thought, I spake:
' By all great powers around us! can it be
That we poor women are empirical?
That gods who fashioned us did strive to make
Beings too fine, too subtly delicate,
With sense that thrilled response to ev'ry touch
Of nature's and their task is not complete?
That they have sent their half‐completed work
To bleed and quiver here upon the earth?
To bleed and quiver, and to weep and weep,
To beat its soul against the marble walls
Of men's cold hearts, and then at last to sin!'
I ceased, the first hot passion stayed and stemmed
And frighted by the silence : I could see,
Framed by the arbour foliage, which the sun
In setting softly gilded with rich gold,
Those upturned faces, and those placid limbs;
Saw Plato's narrow eyes and niggard mouth,
Which half did smile and half did criticise,
One hand held up, the shapely fingers framed
To gesture of entreaty—' Hush, I pray,
Do not disturb her; let us hear the rest;
Follow her mood, for here's another phase
Of your black-browed Xantippe. . . .'
Then I saw
Young Alkibiades, with laughing lips
And half‐shut eyes, contemptuous shrugging up
Soft, snowy shoulders, till he brought the gold
Of flowing ringlets round about his breasts.
But Sokrates, all slow and solemnly,
Raised, calm, his face to mine, and sudden spake :
' I thank thee for the wisdom which thy lips
Have thus let fall among us : prythee tell
From what high source, from what philosophies
Didst cull the sapient notion of thy words?'
Then stood I straight and silent for a breath,
Dumb, crushed with all that weight of cold contempt;
But swiftly in my bosom there uprose
A sudden flame, a merciful fury sent
To save me; with both angry hands I flung
The skin upon the marble, where it lay
Spouting red rills and fountains on the white;
Then, all unheeding faces, voices, eyes,
I fled across the threshold, hair unbound—
White garment stained to redness—beating heart
Flooded with all the flowing tide of hopes
Which once had gushed out golden, now sent back
Swift to their sources, never more to rise. . . .
I think I could have borne the weary life,
The narrow life within the narrow walls,
If he had loved me; but he kept his love
For this Athenian city and her sons;
And, haply, for some stranger‐woman, bold
With freedom, thought, and glib philosophy. . . .
Ah me! the long, long weeping through the nights,
The weary watching for the pale‐eyed dawn
Which only brought fresh grieving : then I grew
Fiercer, and cursed from out my inmost heart
The Fates which marked me an Athenian maid.
Then faded that vain fury; hope died out;
A huge despair was stealing on my soul,
A sort of fierce acceptance of my fate,—
He wished a household vessel—well! 'twas good,
For he should have it! He should have no more
The yearning treasure of a woman's love,
But just the baser treasure which he sought.
I called my maidens, ordered out the loom,
And spun unceasing from the morn till eve;
Watching all keenly over warp and woof,
Weighing the white wool with a jealous hand.
I spun until, methinks, I spun away
The soul from out my body, the high thoughts
From out my spirit; till at last I grew
As ye have known me,—eye exact to mark
The texture of the spinning; ear all keen
For aimless talking when the moon is up,
And ye should be a‐sleeping; tongue to cut
With quick incision, 'thwart the merry words
Of idle maidens. . . .
Only yesterday
My hands did cease from spinning; I have wrought
My dreary duties, patient till the last.
The gods reward me! Nay, I will not tell
The after years of sorrow; wretched strife
With grimmest foes—sad Want and Poverty;—
Nor yet the time of horror, when they bore
My husband from the threshold; nay, nor when
The subtle weed had wrought its deadly work.
Alas! alas! I was not there to soothe
The last great moment; never any thought
Of her that loved him—save at least the charge,
All earthly, that her body should not starve. . . .
You weep, you weep; I would not that ye wept;
Such tears are idle; with the young, such grief
Soon grows to gratulation, as, 'her love
Was withered by misfortune; mine shall grow
All nurtured by the loving,' or, 'her life
Was wrecked and shattered—mine shall smoothly sail.'
Enough, enough. In vain, in vain, in vain!
The gods forgive me! Sorely have I sinned
In all my life. A fairer fate befall
You all that stand there. . . .
Ha! the dawn has come;
I see a rosy glimmer—nay! it grows dark;
Why stand ye so in silence? throw it wide,
The casement, quick; why tarry?—give me air—
O fling it wide, I say, and give me light!
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SNOHOMISH — Floods, fires and family crises — Harvey Field has survived them all.
In 1990, then-10-year-old Preston Harvey stood on the second floor of Snohomish Flying Service and watched the water rise just a few hundred feet away. The Snohomish River had already spilled over its banks, and the waters now threatened the last barrier to the airport, the railroad tracks.
In the next instant, the water breached the tracks, and an explosion of mud and debris raced toward the airport. Preston, his parents Dick and Kandace, and his older brother Lance continued moving valuables to upstairs rooms until the water rose to about two feet. The four of them then walked down the outside stairs into a jet boat that Dick had tied to the railing earlier in the day. Then, Preston says, "We got in and motored home."
Home was just at the other end of the half-mile runway, and the flood was just one of many that has occurred during Harvey Field's 70-year history.
Today the privately owned airport employs 119 people at Snohomish Flying Service, several smaller businesses and a restaurant, the Buzz Inn, a small local chain. The airport hasn't flooded since 1995, after dikes were built. Preston Harvey is now vice president of maintenance.
Although thoroughly modern, with computerized tests, simulators and automated accounting, Harvey Field evokes the early days of aviation, and it's not hard to imagine Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis floating across the power lines at the end of the runway, touching down on the grass, and joining fellow pilots for a cup of coffee in the Buzz Inn.
The Harveys say that if they have anything to do with it, the little airport will still be that way in another 70 years.
Before pavement
Dick Harvey's father and grandfather, Eldon and Noble, and family friend Wesley Loback established the airport in 1944. But Harvey Field's first flight actually took place on May 7, 1911, when famed barnstormer Fred J. Wiseman brought his biplane to Snohomish for an exhibition. The flight wasn't much — Wiseman took off from a ball field on the Harvey property and landed just a few hundred yards away in the field that later became the airport.
By 1947, the budding grass airfield had hangars, a flight school and buildings for maintenance and administration. In 1950, Eldon incorporated the Snohomish Flying Service, and a year later he bought an Aeronca Champ, a training airplane that still resides at Harvey after more than 13,000 hours in the air. Three generations of Harveys have learned to fly in the Champ.
Dick and Kandace married in 1967, and after Dick's three-year Army stint, the couple returned to work at and then manage the airport. They added a paved runway, obtained Federal Aviation Administration approval for veterans to use the GI Bill for training at the flight school and extended the hours of the small Skyroom Cafe, which evolved into the Buzz Inn. Soon pilots and aviation enthusiasts from all around Puget Sound flocked to the tiny airport.
For the next two decades, the airport continued to grow. Kandace handled the books and the business side, while Dick raced around the ramp and airfield, repairing and refueling airplanes. After a lengthy battle with cancer, Dick died in 1995, leaving Kandace and their four children to run the airport.
On Jan. 31, 2000, Kandace, now CEO of Harvey Airfield, sat in her office at the north end of the field and watched an airplane bounce down the runway and stagger into the air. The airplane disappeared from her view and she thought, "This doesn't look right." Then she saw black smoke.
The airplane had hit the master bedroom in her house, destroying everything except the box springs in her bed. Both pilots survived, but the house had to be completely rebuilt.
In 2014, Kandace is philosophical about the hazards of living at an airport, saying, "It was just a fluke that won't happen again."
Skydivers and balloons
One Saturday in January, I pull into Harvey Field's parking lot around one o'clock. The sun has finally burned through the fog to reveal blue skies, and an airplane climbs out with a load of skydivers. Skydiving began at the airport in 1961 with the Seattle Skydivers, the oldest skydiving club in the U.S., and the current operation, Skydive Snohomish, is owned by Preston's brother, Tyson.
I grab a latte from Harvey Field Espresso, owned by Preston's sister, Heather, and then stroll to the Snohomish Flying Service upper deck lounge to watch the action.
Pilots and students zip around with flight instructors clad in bright red polo shirts. Everyone is trying to take advantage of the three hours of remaining daylight. The radio chatters in the background: "Four-one-seven-nine-papa, west of the field, we've got the traffic in sight."
A pilot renting an airplane fills out a form, while a student from Taiwan clutches a kneeboard and flight plan as he walks out to pre-flight an airplane. Since 2010, the Snohomish Flying Service has been teaching about a dozen Taiwanese students each year how to fly. Most go on to fly for Taiwan's major airline, EVA Air.
The second floor at Harvey is a perfect viewing spot — picture windows, overstuffed chairs and a padded bench, along with free coffee. Mount Rainier pokes above rows of hangars with white and red roofs.
As a tiny Cessna 152 trainer takes off, a red, white and blue parachute appears with a tandem skydiving team — an instructor and student. The instructor nails the bull's-eye of the skydiving circle. Two minutes later, another team lands on the bull's-eye. The instructors make it look easy, but the next two jumpers, both solo, miss the target by at least 10 feet.
A bright yellow airplane that sits on its tail, a "tail-dragger," taxis up to the fuel pump. A worker uses a tug to pull a helicopter out of the maintenance hangar. Little airplanes, mostly tail-draggers, scoot toward the runway as the skydiving plane lands. It looks like controlled chaos on the taxiway. A pilot pulls a twin-engine airplane onto the ramp, the low thrum of its powerful engines bouncing off the hangars, and deftly swings the tail around and shuts it down.
Back downstairs, chief pilot Rich Ren, who has worked as a flight instructor in Africa and was once a pilot for John Travolta, reviews a thick folder of pilot paperwork that looks like an old-fashioned medical record. He briefs the student on what they will be doing on this flight, which is practice for an upcoming pilot-certification flight — flying to nearby Paine Field in Everett, landing, taking off again, maneuvering over Lake Stevens and then returning to Harvey.
It's now about three o'clock, and a magnificent balloon from the Airial Balloon Co. rises above the field and starts drifting slowly southward. Airial, too, is owned by a family member — Marilyn Harvey.
By four o'clock, the sun is dipping low on the horizon, and the sky turns a deep Seattle blue with white streaks of high cirrus. Radio chatter picks up as everyone heads back to land, and the last load of skydivers takes off. As night falls, the aircraft begin to sport red, green and white lights. Airplanes move to tie-down spots, and the tug scoops up a few and takes them to a hangar. The runway lights come on, and I watch the spectacular red sunset.
Freelance aviation writer Eileen Bjorkman has a doctorate in engineering and is a retired Air Force colonel who lives in Everett. She has an airplane hangared at Harvey Field.
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06-29-15, 10:51 AM, SudaneseOnline News
SudanвҖҷs president expends the mandate of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) for one year
06-29-15, 10:49 AM, SudaneseOnline News
SudanвҖҷs government emphasizes that any negotiations regarding Darfur would be based on (DDPD)
06-29-15, 10:48 AM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan to launch the Sudan Electronic Gateway project
06-29-15, 10:47 AM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudanese army accuses UNAMID of dragging its feet in demobilization the former fighters
06-29-15, 10:46 AM, SudaneseOnline News
ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II refers to the UNSC SudanвҖҷs non-cooperation and failure to arrest Mr Abdel
06-29-15, 02:41 AM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
ICC refers to UNSC SudanвҖҷs failure to arrest Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein
06-27-15, 03:06 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan denounces the terrorist attack on a mosque in Kuwait
06-27-15, 03:04 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan describes AU resolution as a successful framework for a sustainable peace in Darfur
06-27-15, 03:03 PM, SudaneseOnline News
UN weighs imposing sanctions on six senior commanders from South Sudan
06-27-15, 03:01 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Darfur Authority renews its calls for UNAMID to withdraw from the troubled region
06-27-15, 03:00 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan and German discuss the national dialogue, illegal immigration and human trafficking issues
06-17-15, 04:39 PM, SudaneseOnline News
250,000 South Sudanese children face starvation due to the conflicts: UN
06-17-15, 04:38 PM, SudaneseOnline News
South African government to explain to judges why Sudanese President left the country
06-17-15, 04:35 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan and Ethiopia sign on the projects of the economic and developmental work
06-17-15, 04:34 PM, SudaneseOnline News
South AfricanвҖҷs government promises to probe into Al-BashirвҖҷs leaving the country
06-16-15, 09:27 AM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan announces establishing of a national mechanism to deal with the U.S sanctions
06-16-15, 09:20 AM, SudaneseOnline News
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The President of the Assembly calls on States Parties to fulfill their obligations to execute the A
06-14-15, 05:24 AM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
SudanвҖҷs popular delegation travels to U.S to convince Washington to lift the sanctions
06-06-15, 03:38 PM, SudaneseOnline News
EU concerned about violence, calls for calm and humanitarian access in East Darfur
05-14-15, 06:45 AM, SudaneseOnline News
ICC judges hold roundtable meeting with United Nations Special Representative for Sexual Violence i
05-14-15, 06:42 AM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Calls to the presidency to allow free admission to Sudanese returning from Yemen in schools and uni
05-12-15, 10:05 PM, SudaneseOnline News
South Sudan's newly passed bill could restrict work as the country faces humanitarian crisis: NGOs
05-12-15, 10:04 PM, SudaneseOnline News
SudanвҖҷs National Dialogue Committee, known as 7+7, has urged the chairman of the AU High-Level Impl
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Sudanese-French Economic Forum will focus on attracting investments to Sudan
05-12-15, 10:02 PM, SudaneseOnline News
UN and EU to implement a natural resources management project in SudanвҖҷs Darfur
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Fresh tribal conflict in SudanвҖҷs East Darfur resulting in numerous deaths
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U.S. Condemns Violence in Sudan
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U.S expresses its gravely concerned about the continuing fighting in SudanвҖҷs parts
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Sudan invites the head of AU Commission to attend the swearing in of Al- Bashir
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It is time to lift the unilateral sanctions on Sudan: AU
05-02-15, 04:51 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan slams (UNAMID) for neglecting to take responsibility for the attack in Darfur
05-01-15, 03:33 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Statement attributable to the Spokesman of the Secretary-General on Darfur
04-28-15, 07:00 PM, SudaneseOnline Press Release
Sudan summons the Canadian Charge dвҖҷaffaires to protest over Sudanese electionsвҖҷ integrity
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UN voices deep concern about the recent attacks on (UNAMID) in SudanвҖҷs Darfur
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Horn of Africa: New effort to reunite families caught up in South Sudan violence
04-27-15, 03:52 PM, SudaneseOnline Press Release
Completing of projects financed by Kuwaiti grant in SudanвҖҷs eastern states
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Sudan pauses fishermenвҖҷs trial
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SudanвҖҷs president fails to get clearance to fly in airspace to travel to Indonesia
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The meeting of UNAMID exit strategy from SudanвҖҷs Darfur resumes
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SudanвҖҷs authorities release two opposition figures
04-10-15, 03:24 PM, SudaneseOnline News
ICC President meets United Nations Secretary-General in New York
04-08-15, 07:11 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Anti-election campaign scares population of South Kordofan
04-08-15, 04:48 PM, Radio Dabanga
COMESA calls for lifting U.S sanctions on Sudan
03-31-15, 05:50 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan govt. not serious about National Dialogue: rebel leader
03-29-15, 05:24 PM, Radio Dabanga
Schlumberger fined $232.7mn for breaking Iran, Sudan sanctions
03-26-15, 04:17 PM, AFP Agence France Presse
Yemen: ICRC concerned at civilian casualties amid escalating violence
03-26-15, 04:10 PM, SudaneseOnline Press Release
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan sign agreement on Renaissance Dam
03-25-15, 01:58 AM, Radio Dabanga
Joint Statement on the National Dialogue in Sudan by U.S. State Department
03-25-15, 01:55 AM, SudaneseOnline Press Release
Security agents thwart anti-election forum in Port Sudan
03-25-15, 01:51 AM, Radio Dabanga
Bloody tribal clashes in SudanвҖҷs Darfur left many dead and injured
03-21-15, 07:04 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudan: ICRC appeals for funds to scale up humanitarian action
03-18-15, 08:13 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Five dead, three injured in Darfur shootings
03-17-15, 08:36 PM, Radio Dabanga
China describes its relationship with Sudan as a model must be followed
03-17-15, 08:33 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudanese popular and official delegations conduct dialogue with U.S. lobbies on sanctions
03-17-15, 08:24 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Al-Bashir discusses with Mufti of Croatia position of Muslim minorities
03-16-15, 06:08 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Call for Sudan to stop recruiting minors in South Kordofan
03-16-15, 06:05 PM, Radio Dabanga
Foreign aid goods for sale at Sudanese markets: displaced
03-13-15, 05:18 PM, Radio Dabanga
ICC knows it doesn't scare Sudan at all: Information Minister says
03-13-15, 05:15 PM, SudaneseOnline News
SudanвҖҷs ruling party welcomes Berlin Declaration
03-11-15, 07:16 PM, Radio Dabanga
ICC moves intended to disrupt the elections: SudanвҖҷs parliament
03-11-15, 07:14 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Norway and UNIDO launch a вӮ¬ 4,8 million project for the sustainable management of marine fisheries
03-11-15, 06:05 PM, SudaneseOnline Press Release
S. Sudan Braces for Sanctions as Economy Limps
03-11-15, 06:04 PM, Voice of America
ICC Trial Chamber I joins the cases concerning Laurent Gbagbo and Charles BlГ© GoudГ©
03-11-15, 05:58 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Six new judges sworn in today at the seat of the International Criminal Court
03-11-15, 04:09 AM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Pre-Trial Chamber II informs the United Nations Security Council about SudanвҖҷs non-cooperation in t
03-09-15, 04:54 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
The Secretary-General Remarks at the opening session of the Commission on the Status of Women
03-09-15, 04:50 PM, SudaneseOnline Press Release
Lubanga case: ICC Appeals Chamber amends the Trial ChamberвҖҷs order for reparations to victims
03-04-15, 05:10 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
UNAMID announces that it will cut 770 civilian jobs
03-02-15, 08:36 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Ngudjolo Chui case: ICC Appeals Chamber confirms the acquittal decision
02-27-15, 08:30 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Sudanese leader says being hounded by ICC, West
02-27-15, 08:29 PM, AFP Agence France Presse
Fatou Bensouda, at a press conference in Uganda: justice will ultimately be dispensed for LRA crime
02-27-15, 08:25 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Liberation of Kuhliyat garrison 5 km west Kadugli city
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Bashir: Iranian centers closed to protect Sudan
02-25-15, 09:32 PM, Al Arabiya News
Statement of the ICC Prosecutor at a press conference in the Central African Republic
02-25-15, 09:29 PM, ICC Public Affairs Unit
Sudanese Refugee Sue Moviemakers
02-24-15, 10:18 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Kuwait's Zain seeks to repatriate $280 mln from Sudan
02-24-15, 10:13 PM, Reuters
China announces that it will continue to support South Sudan peace process
02-24-15, 05:04 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Three die in militia attacks in South and North Darfur
02-24-15, 05:03 PM, Radio Dabanga
Sudan and Kuwait negotiate help Zain repatriate $280 million worth of Sudanese pounds
02-24-15, 05:02 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Darfur displaced invite US Deputy Secretary of State to visit their camps
02-24-15, 05:00 PM, Radio Dabanga
Egypt never stopped communicating with Nile basin countries: Egyptian Ambassador to Sudan
02-24-15, 04:18 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Talks between Khartoum and Washington on human rights and democracy
02-23-15, 05:22 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Darfur authority stresses that improvement of U.S-Sudanese relations will bring peace
02-21-15, 04:22 PM, SudaneseOnline News
UNAMID prepares for a safe exit from SudanвҖҷs Darfur
02-20-15, 03:18 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudanese hospital medics strike over non-payment
02-20-15, 03:16 PM, Radio Dabanga
SudanвҖҷs Vice President warns the young of extremism and terrorism
02-20-15, 03:08 PM, SudaneseOnline News
South Sudan Rebel Spokesman Defects
02-19-15, 00:43 AM, Voice of America
U.S. Treasury Allows Personal Communication Exports to Sudan
02-19-15, 00:41 AM, wall street online journal
South Sudan Warns Media Not to Publish Rebel Interviews
02-17-15, 05:29 PM, Voice of America
Sudanese top official in Washington today
02-08-15, 06:39 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Karti visit to Washington has nothing to do with Merriam Ibrahim issue: Sudan says
02-07-15, 04:51 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Sudanese popular initiative to mend relations between Khartoum and Washington
01-25-15, 04:59 PM, SudaneseOnline News
Serious dialogue to normalize relations with Washington: Sudan says
01-12-15, 04:38 PM, SudaneseOnline News
SudanвҖҷs president directs his foreign ministry to open a new door for the dialogue with Washington
11-03-14, 04:05 PM, SudaneseOnline News
New US charge D affaires to arrive in Sudan soon
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Cisco CIO describes the company's experience delivering employee IT services and how its latest announcement, OpFlex, fits into her vision.
April 3, 2014
Wednesday's Interop Las Vegas conference (run by UBM Tech, InformationWeek's parent company) featured Rebecca Jacoby, SVP and CIO of Cisco. Network Computing managing editor Marcia Savage and I followed the action in the comments below. Add your own thoughts or ask a question, and we'll be sure to follow up.
Jacoby explained how the role of the CIO has become more visible and an opportunity for innovation as technology has become more important to businesses, having progressed from simple connectivity to the networked economy, a world of digital interactions, and now the Internet of everything.
"IT is changing faster than we can imagine," said Jacoby. She urged IT leaders to adopt a new IT model that is agile and helps IT act as a catalyst for change. Policy-driven architectures and leveraging the knowledge of the community toward delivering those architectures are important, she said.
As an example, Cisco also announced the OpFlex open protocol Wednesday at Interop. Cisco said OpFlex, used in conjunction with its Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) controller, will allow customers to streamline management of multi-vendor networks. In announcing the protocol, Cisco said its approach with ACI differs from the OpenFlow-based approach, which it described as putting all intelligence in a controller that becomes a bottleneck.
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Communities Call for Strong EPA Pollution Standards Near Oil Refineries
Hundreds of concerned residents from port communities along the Gulf Coast packed an Environmental Protection Agency hearing in Houston this week to call for stronger pollution controls near oil refineries.
"In Louisiana and Texas, communities around refineries have for too long lived with exposure without knowing what was in the air," said Darryl Malek-Wiley, a Sierra Club environmental justice organizer in Louisiana.
The EPA is proposing additional pollution control requirements for storage tanks, flares, and coking units at petroleum refineries. The EPA is also proposing to require monitoring of air concentrations at the fenceline of refinery facilities to ensure proposed standards are being met and that neighboring communities are not being exposed to unintended emissions.
Exposure to toxic air pollutants can cause respiratory problems and other serious health issues, and can increase the risk of developing cancer.
The Sierra Club, EarthJustice and coalition partners helped bus in residents from neighborhoods near refineries in Louisiana to speak at the Houston hearing. Affected residents from around the U.S. were also at the hearing to testity. From the AP story:
Theresa Landrum traveled to Texas from Detroit to testify about the "toxic soup" she said she and her neighbors are exposed to from living alongside a refinery. A cancer survivor, Landrum said she lost her mother, father and brother to cancer she believes was caused by refinery emissions.
"The fenceline monitoring will help us determine what is coming out of those stacks," she said.
Adan Vazquez said that in winter, "snow flurries look like ash" because of a refinery near the Houston Ship Channel less than a mile from his Pasadena, Texas, home.
Leslie Fields, director of the Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships program for the Sierra Club, testified at the hearing as well, calling on EPA to create the strongest standard possible and enforce it. This EPA standard at refineries would reduce toxic emissions, improving air quality and protecting public health in communities surrounding these facilities.
"We support the proposed standard -- it's long overdue for these affected communities," said Fields. "We also are advocating for real time fenceline monitoring and more hearings in the Midwest and along the East Coast on this standard," said Fields. "The EPA also needs to create an environmental justice analysis for this rule."
But Fields and Malek-Wiley also think the standard could go even farther.
"The EPA needs to look at more chemicals from these refineries, require more monitoring, and we also want to make sure that all that information is easily accessible to communities," said Malek-Wiley.
"Also, some have said it's too expensive for industry. Well, for one example, I looked at the first quarter of 2014, and Marathon Oil made $540 million. If they don't have enough money now, when will they ever have enough money to do comprehensive real-time monitoring of their pollution?"
(L to R) Mary Willams of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Jane Williams of Sierra Club California, Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Jesse Marquez of the Coalition for Safe Environment, Lisa Garcia of Earthjustice, Hilton Kelley, Leslie Fields, Margie Richard, Dr. Robert Bullard.
Also testifying at this week's hearing in Houston were 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize winner and long-time Port Arthur environmental justice activist Hilton Kelley and Dr. Robert Bullard, the winner of the 2013 Sierra Club John Muir Award and known as the father of environmental justice. Dr. Bullard is the dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland Public Policy School at Texas Southern University.
Powerful testimony also came from Dr. Beverly Wright, director Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans, Willy Fontenot, the conservation chair of the Delta Chapter Sierra Club in Baton Rouge, Neil Carman, Clean Air Director of the Lone Star chapter, Jane Williams, chair of the Sierra Club Toxics Committee, 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize winner Margie Richard, and Dorothy Felix of Mossville Environmental Action Now in Louisiana.
TAKE ACTION: Tell the EPA you want strong pollution standards and enforcement for oil refineries!


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holiday season slowed down the hectic MLB offseason, which had operated on full
blast for more than a month. Although many free agents have signed with new
teams, there is still a lot going on around baseball as 2012 comes to an end.
may be the week after Christmas, but it's never too late to share stories of
baseball and good will. Steve Dilbeck of the Los
Angeles Times
wrote about a young fan's actions and experience of a lifetime while attending
a Los Angeles Dodgers' game earlier this year.
Jack Baur (no, not the guy from 24)
was sitting in the stands during an August game when he was struck by a bat
that slipped from the grasp of Los Angeles third baseman Hanley Ramirez and ricocheted
off another child. Fortunately, both youngsters were okay. Security immediately
retrieved the bat to return to Ramirez, but new team owner Magic Johnson saw everything
transpire and brought autographed balls to the two boys and made sure they
weren't hurt. It turned out that wasn't the end of the situation.
Nash, a television producer and co-author of The Baseball Hall of Shame book series,
saw Baur receive a bat after the game from team officials and then give it up
to the other child who Ramirez's bat had hit first. Nash was so touched by the
gesture that he helped arrange for Baur to receive another bat from Ramirez; a
request that was fulfilled by the star. The all-around chain of wonderful
gestures is just another example of why baseball is the greatest game there is.
Red Sox pitcher Daniel Bard struggled through a multitude of issues last season
that effectively pushed him off the roster. However, in a recent interview with
WEEI's Rob Bradford, Bard was
surprisingly upbeat about his future. While not making excuses, he did reveal
that he pitched through a stiff back last season, but enters 2013 feeling both
mentally and physically refreshed. He's also looking forward to being reunited
with new manager John Farrell, who was his first major league pitching coach.
Only time will tell, but signs seem positive that Bard can overcome his
problems and become an effective pitcher for Boston once again.
has retired. Japanese
slugger Hideki Matsui came to the U.S. after 10 superstar seasons with the legendary
Yomiuri Giants, where he hit .304 with 332 home runs. He went on to play
another 10 seasons in the majors, primarily with their gold standard team, the
New York Yankees. While his American numbers weren't as spectacular (.282 with 175
home runs), he was a solid outfielder/DH, whose teams made the playoffs six
time, including 2009's World Series winning Yankees (Matsui was that year's
World Series MVP, hitting .615 with three home runs).
addition to his accomplishments on the baseball diamond, Matsui also became
known for his affinity
for adult entertainment. Reportedly the owner of more than 55,000 illicit
Matsui apparently isn't doing anything illegal, but now has one of the more
bizarre footnotes in baseball history.
major league reliever Ugueth Urbina was released from a Venezuelan
after having served seven-and-a-half years for attempting to kill five workers
on his family's ranch. The 38-year-old right-hander played for six teams in an
11-year major league career, most notably for the Montreal Expos and Red Sox.
told reporters he hopes to resume his professional pitching career, but he may
want to re-evaluate his goals. The United States have strict laws preventing
entry to the country for those with criminal backgrounds. Anyone with
convictions for "crimes involving moral turpitude" are strictly
prohibited from receiving a visa. Urbina may want to jumpstart his baseball
career again, but it appears that won't be happening in the majors.
Red Sox finalized a trade with the
Pittsburgh Pirates that brings closer Joel Hanrahan to Beantown. In addition to
maligned reliever Mark Melancon, Boston sent back several non-premium prospects
to complete the deal.
Andrew Bailey under contract, the addition of Hanrahan seems a bit redundant.
With a fastball that has averaged
nearly 96 mph for his career, there is no doubt that Hanrahan is one of
the most powerful pitchers in baseball.
His acquisition is another in a long line of non-star additions Boston
GM Ben Cherington has made this offseason. Even though he is one season away
from free agency, the relative pittance Boston paid for his services to be
their closer in 2013 justifies the move.
catcher A.J. Pierzynski signed a one-year contract worth $7.5
million with the Texas Rangers. In many ways the deal may be disappointing to both
is coming off a career year, where he hit .278 with 27 home runs and 77 RBI.
However, he just turned 36, which is a precarious age for catchers. It also has
to be more than a little galling to him that instead of reaping a large payday
from his impressive 2012 season, he will likely finish out his career on
one-year deals. Heck, even Russell
Martin, who has hit a combined .224 over the past two seasons, was able to
score a two-year, $17 million deal earlier this
normal circumstances the Rangers would be happy to add a player of Pierzynski's
caliber, but since he represents their most significant acquisition this
offseason, his signing has to be tinged with disappointment. Not only did Texas
allow star outfielder Josh Hamilton to sign with their division
rivals, the Los Angeles Angels, but they were also unable to land Zack Greinke,
the top available starting pitcher this, who instead went to the Dodgers. As
things stand today, there is little doubt that Texas has lost a lot of ground
in the AL that can't simply be made up by their new catcher.
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Semester-in-Practice Makes Perfect
Loyola's Semester-in-Practice program offers upper-division students the opportunity to shadow attorneys at Southern California's top civil litigation firms. Participating students complete substantive tasks as they make the rounds at their respective firms.
"Every day I showed up, I was making an appearance somewhere, said Greg Chambers '13. "I would go on depositions, go to watch trial or motion hearings. I was paired up with a lot of different people in the firm. I got an opportunity to meet a lot of different attorneys and build rapport with a lot of different folks, including some of the partners."
Chambers worked in the construction industry for 15 years and earned an MBA before enrolling at Loyola. He wanted an experience that allowed him to capitalize on that experience, and he found it at his Semester-in-Practice firm: Collins Collins Muir + Stewart LLP.
"It worked out well because one of the first depositions I went to was a construction defect situation," he said. "It helped a lot just to be able to understand when the engineer is being questioned what is going on, what they're talking about, just the lingo. So I think that started things off for me on a pretty good note."
Now studying for July California Bar exam, Chambers will return to the firm as a post-bar law clerk. "I really think I had a great experience," he said.
Marcelis Morris '13 felt the same about his Semester-in-Practice experience. A Gary Paul Scholar at Loyola, he spent a semester at Girardi | Keese, a successful plaintiffs' firm in downtown Los Angeles that specializes in product liability, personal injury and medical malpractice, among other practice areas. During his tenure, he shadowed attorneys during such proceedings as voir dire sessions, trials, depositions, hearings and mediations. For Morris, the SIP provided something that the classroom – or even a law firm clerkship – could not.
"It really filled in the gaps," he said. "I got an inside look into the whole litigation process. I got to do the things that you never have time for as a law clerk but want to do. You go to the deposition, the mediation, the arbitration, the client meeting, the meeting with opposing counsel. You get to see the other half of lawyering. There's a part of it that has nothing to do with a computer. It's interacting with judges, other attorneys, clients. It's seeing beyond the computer, beyond the paper trail. It gives you insight into just lawyering. Period."
Morris credits the SIP with allowing him access to proceedings where he could witness good lawyering skills at work. "I would watch two attorneys argue a demurrer on a dog bite case. You get to see veteran lawyers, new lawyers and different styles. With the Semester-in-Practice, you could just go anywhere and see anything – even more than you would get as a lawyer."
And Morris would know – he bulked up on practical experience in myriad other ways. He was a law clerk at Waters Kraus Paul, a plaintiffs' firm specializing in asbestos, personal injury and birth-defect cases. He was also a member of the Byrne Trial Advocacy Team and the Hobbs District Attorney Clinic. As a second-year transfer from the University of LaVerne College of Law, he wonders how he fit it all in. "I have an immense appreciation for the amount of opportunities Loyola gives you while a student," he said. "I said, 'I have two years to get my hands in anything.' So I took advantage of every opportunity I could get my hands on."
For Kathryn Suggs '13, the ability to shadow was key. "I had the opportunity to participate in the deposition of two expert witnesses in the same case by the same attorney. By observing the same attorney handling two different witnesses based upon the same set of circumstances, I was able to gleam a practical understanding of applying differing strategies to the deposition process," she said.
Suggs found the freedom to observe was unparalleled. "Unlike the firm experiences of many of my peers, I was given the freedom to slowly learn about the entire civil practice without a lot of the stress of personal work assignment deadlines," she said. "The SIP requires that at least 50 percent of your time at the firm involves observing others in practice. As a result, I was able to relax just really focus on learning by example. While I did have assignments that were difficult and had stressful time deadlines, the balance of those times with times of observation made the overall experience a much less stressful one and much more educational."
Attorney mentors share their mentees' enthusiasm. "The Semester-in-Practice program is one of the best programs out there for law students. Students from the program who have externed for Brown White & Newhouse, LLP have had the opportunity to establish a mentoring relationship with attorneys and have shadowed them at depositions, court hearings and client meetings," said Kimia Sehati '11, an associate who worked with Suggs. "Externs have assisted with drafting letters to clients, preparing briefs, and conducting legal research, which has allowed them to gain helpful feedback from experienced attorneys on how to advance their writing and research skills. "
Since the SIP's inception in fall 2011, about 75 students have participated in the program in a range of firms. Pictured above: Sehati works with SIP student Kathryn Suggs '13, who spent a semester at the firm as part of her Semester-in-Practice.


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Microsoft has integrated SkyDrive more deeply into the core OS with the Windows 8.1 update for Windows 8 and RT. And this change means seamless connectivity to your cloud-based files from both the desktop and the new "Metro" mobile environment, meaning that the combination of Windows and SkyDrive is more powerful than ever, and more potent than what's available on other platforms.
This wasn't always the case. In the initial release of Windows 8/RT, SkyDrive integration basically meant online-only access to your files through a Metro-style app, as is available on platforms like Windows Phone, iOS (iPad, iPhone) and Android. (In addition to unrelated SkyDrive-based settings sync functionality that is unique to Windows 8/RT.) Windows 8 users (but not Windows RT users) could gain offline capabilities by installing the free SkyDrive desktop application.
But with Windows 8.1, Windows 8/RT are picking up additional SkyDrive integration.
I previously wrote two articles about the SkyDrive changes in Windows 8.1. The first, Hands-On with Windows 8.1: SkyDrive Integration, explains how SkyDrive is being more tightly linked the underlying OS, a huge benefit for all Windows users, but in particular for Windows RT users, given the original offline capability limitations. The second, Hands-On with Windows 8.1: SkyDrive App, discusses improvements to the Metro-style SkyDrive app, including new file system browsing capabilities.
I'm embarrassed to admit I missed a key new feature in that app (though in my defense I do tend to stick to the desktop environment): In Windows 8.1, you can make SkyDrive-based files available for offline use right from the app. You don't have to do so from the desktop.
This and other details about SkyDrive integration delivered by Windows 8.1 are discussed in Have all your SkyDrive files with you – without using all your storage or bandwidth a new post to the Inside SkyDrive blog. This information supports my previous claim that SkyDrive integration is arguably the single biggest new feature in Windows 8.1. Among the key features:
Placeholder files. When you agree to integrate SkyDrive with Windows 8/RT during Windows 8.1 Setup (or later, via PC Settings), you're given "access to all your SkyDrive files without actually downloading them, using precious local disk space and Internet bandwidth." This happens courtesy of a special, new kind of shortcut called placeholder files. They "look and feel like normal folders and files. You can tap or click a folder and see all the folders and files inside it. You can tap or click a file and it will open, you can edit it and close it. You can move, delete, copy, or rename placeholder files just like you would any folder or file. But [Windows] only downloads the full file when you access it." The advantage? Huge space savings: 100 GB of used space in SkyDrive can take up less than 5 GB on the local disk, for example.
Smart thumbnails. Because of the special needs of photos, the placeholder for this type of file is a bit different. "When you flip through photos, [Windows] downloads large thumbnail images instead of the actual files. And [Windows] pre-fetches thumbnails to enable fast scrolling. It's only when you want to edit a photo that [Windows] downloads the full file to the local disk."
Offline access. I noted previously that you could right-click on SkyDrive-based files and folders from File Explorer and choose "Make available offline" from the pop-up menu that appears. But this works from the SkyDrive app too, so tablet users and others that wish to avoid the desktop never need to leave Metro to access this functionality.
Also, Windows "always marks files for offline access if you've opened or edited them on this device before. [Windows does] that because most people tend to open the same files they recently opened, but the files they open often vary across different devices – so [it] remembers those files and makes this unique to the device you're using." You can also choose to have your entire SkyDrive available for offline access, of course.
File open and save. SkyDrive is built into the Metro-based File Picker experience as well as File Open and File Save on the desktop side, so you will be able to access your SkyDrive-based files, and save to SkyDrive, from any Metro app or desktop application.
Search. SkyDrive is also built into the new Smart Search experience in Windows 8.1, and SkyDrive files show up in search results just like your local files.
All in all, some great functionality here, and while you can certainly access your SkyDrive data using other platforms, only Windows 8 and RT with the Windows 8.1 update provide this level of deep OS integration.